Recent writing
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For Jane, on her Birthday.
ReadIn life, we get cheerleaders. We have to be our own on the way to finding our own troop of cheerleaders, but it’s true. Those mates who stick by you,…
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A Decade | Dadadadadad
ReadA decade. The way it rounds up in my mouth as I say it, seems far too clean a manner with which to describe the sheer void that it implies.…
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21 Questions
ReadI’ve done quite a few of these before, so if you’re bored, you can read some of them here; here; here; here and here. I was tagged by my (yes, she’s mine!!!)…
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Thoughts Over Tea
ReadI feel an intense pressure on myself (all self-created, I know and realise) to have some insightful thoughts on turning 35. Normally, ever year, I take a little time out…
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Book Review: I Am Pregnant – Dr Dumani Kula
ReadFirst off, don’t be alarmed (haha), this really is a book review, and not an announcement. It’s also not a sponsored post, but some rather lovely folks sent me a…
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#LoveMyHome with the East Coast Radio House and Garden Show
ReadMoving house is right up there on the stressor scale, and I really think it wigs me out way more than I let on. As you know, we moved towards…
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Ten For Ten.
ReadSweet child, the idea that you are turning ten leaves me breathless. Every parent says it, but it’s so true for me – I blinked and suddenly you’d morphed from…
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Pathways
ReadI can judge the level of how well I know someone, and how well they know me, by the things they say about me, to me (and sometimes, not to…
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Five Years – Mom.
ReadDear Mom, When a child turns five, their parents feel this strange sense of pride and longing. Like, five is a “whole hand” and the baby days are very over.…
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Tupperware Party
ReadBut first. If you’ve been following, this is the final instalment of not only our tandem, collaborative blogging series, but it is also the final page in a short story I’ve been…